Greg Larson - The town's deputy. Unlucky enough to have John steal his girlfriend and seems to get over this a bit too easily.

Kristin - Johnny's girlfriend. One of the few people not completely freaked out by the snake.

Theresa - Tommy's girlfriend and suffering from ophidiophobia; gets attacked by the python in the shower and surprisingly lives. Does the usual "run and scream from the monster" bit, then becomes helpful.

Dr. Anton Rudolph - Robert Englund! Scientist that might have created the snake; commits suicide trying to destroy it.

Special Agent Bart Parker - Casper Van Dien! Not as quite as dumb as his character from "Starship Troopers," but ten times as hotheaded. All that, plus a really stupid accent. Gets run through by the snake's tail.

Francesca - Jenny McCarthy! Slutty woman with the oddest facial expressions on Earth. She tries to buy a house from Kenny and gets decapitated by the snake's tail.

The Python - A one hundred and twenty-nine foot monster that was bioengineered from various snakes in Southeast Asia. Eventually gets split open by acid.

The Plot:

During a rough storm, a plane is shipping a giant snake. They foolishly open the crate to see what's inside and are eaten. The plane crashes and the snake survives, making its first snack a couple of lesbians in the woods. It continues its rampage and innocent bike rider John is being blamed. Mainly because one of the women was an old girlfriend of his (looong story), plus her body was melted down by acid, and of course he works at a plating plant with two huge tanks full of the stuff. Said plant is also in danger of closing down, much to the dismay of his "brother."

Meanwhile, somewhere else, Dr. Rudolph is brought in to Agent Parker to explain what happened to the plane and its crew. After realizing that Parker can only understand very basic English, he reveals the cargo was a giant python with enhanced night vision, great strength, and can travel up to fifty miles per hour. They plan a massive assault on the snake once they find it. So a team is sent out, lead by Agent Parker and Dr. Rudolph. When a solider sees it slither by, they unleash machine guns, bazookas, and anything that's not tanks or jets against the reptile. It turns out that the snake was molting and all they hit was the dead skin. It also turns out that the snake used the skin as a decoy; it attacks the group and kills everyone but Dr. Rudolph.

John and Greg get into a rather silly fight over Kristin. After knocking the stuffing out of each other on a children's playground (don't ask), they make up. John, Kristin, and their friends Tommy and Theresa, go up to a cabin near the lake. The snake, of course, follows. It enters Tommy and Theresa's cabin and attacks Theresa in the shower. Taking the time to put a towel on (damn!), she fights the gazillion-foot snake off with a rubber ducky and some shampoo (she was trying to injure its eyes, unfortunately, it was a no-tears formula). She calls Tommy to help and escapes the snake's clutches, though Tommy is killed in the process.

Theresa jumps into her truck (still in nothing but a towel) and drives off, the python right behind her. It eventually crashes her vehicle, though she is uninjured and runs. Right about here you're thinking "Man, that towel sure stays on good!" It's probably stapled. The python has her trapped between some rocks when John and Kristin arrive. They get the snake's attention, drawing him away from Theresa. He attacks their jeep and so they get on their bikes and outrun a fifty mile per hour snake! They meet up Dr. Rudolph in Agent Parker's base and Theresa also arrives. She replaces the towel with more decent clothing while they come up with a plan to trap the snake in the base and blow it up. Greg shows up and they get the snake inside and Theresa presses the detonator, but nothing happens. The detonator was knocked loose when the snake entered the base, or some nonsense, considering the detonator wasn't anywhere near where the snake was supposed to be. Dr. Rudolph, trying to make amends for creating the thing, goes in. Just as he is about to fix the detonator the snake shows up and prepares to snack. Nevertheless, he fixes the device and the whole base goes up in flames.

Dr. Rudolph's sacrifice is meaningless, as the unscathed snake exits the base and charges our heroes. They lure it to Johnny's plating plant and finally kill it by pressing its midsection into a tub of boiling acid. Six months later, the acid plant is refurbished into a sports bar / bike shop. Greg becomes an officer of the FBI, Kristin gets pregnant with Johnny's child, and Theresa is a waitress at the bear wearing a shirt that reads "I killed a giant python and all I got was this stupid t-shirt."

The ending was kind of a bummer. No, I was glad it was over, but I was kinda hoping there would be one of those things at the end where they'd show a new giant snake emerging from the lake or something like that. Like at the end of Lake Placid or TriStar's Godzilla. A movie with a "They're baaack..." ending.

The best character is the snake and the best human character is Dr. Rudolph, mainly because Englund is the only person in this movie who can act. This is the only movie that has made me say "This is MESSED up!" and mean it. It's funny, but it's obvious that it wasn't supposed to be. Unless you like movies that are so bad they're painful, you're sure to enjoy Python. Otherwise, please avoid it at all costs. You won't be missing anything.

Things I Learned From This Movie:

Snakes love gay women. For food, I mean.

There is always at least one idiot on the police force.

If people are being killed by acid, you should not work at a plating plant.

Shooting powerful direct fire weapons, without a target, is okay.

If it ain't human, then Casper Van Dien don't like it.

If you're face-to-face with a hundred and twenty-nine foot snake and the only way to live is to stay completely still, pull out a gun and shoot it.

Agent Parker: "But nowhere in the manifest is there so much as a mention of exactly what it was you were transporting. So I'm asking you, doctor, in simple laymen's terms... ...what... ...was... ...it?"

Dr. Rudolf: "We are talking about a perfect killing machine. A one hundred and twenty-nine foot all terrain vehicle. Capable of speeds exceeding fifty miles an hour, with skin that can deflect an antitank round, enhanced night vision, and voracious appetite for human flesh. It will slaughter your men before they have a chance to blink."

Kristin: "But if it has all these features from all these different kinds of snakes like you say it does - it couldn't have evolved naturally." John: "Yeah, but maybe it didn't. Maybe it was created in some kind of secret government operation. What? I've seen it a hundred times in the movies, they're always doing stuff like that."

Theresa was showering (in the basement) when the python trapped her and only by using a towel and rubber ducky did she manage to hold it off. Tommy then wisely decides to distract the snake by making it eat him.

This movie sucks, the special effects weren't so special, and the good actors die cheesy deaths! Did you know that snakes use they're tails to stab stuff? This is already on the site, but I agree that you should avoid it!

Giant pythons killing off lesbians and attacking chicks in the shower...hmmmm...sounds kinky right? Well this film just blows...the snake looks like it came out of a video game. Also, aside from the Jenny decapitation, there really are no redeming deaths in the flick. For the record, Robert England seems to be quickly becomming the hero of the B-Movie world. Also, it seems Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita (forgive me if they're spelled wrong) are not the only ones struggling from work in the post Karate Kid days...

Hmmm, as if Anaconda didn't blow snakes out of proportion enough, we now have Python. Let me make a list of reasons this movie is just plain bad (and not a good type of Bad like Bad Taste, but really bad)

1) I own a large python, and the CGI snake is out of proportion, as well as the head being incorectly shaped. At least get the proportions right, even if you exagerate the size!

2) The acting is only marginally better than an Ed Wood flick

3) If you have ever watch a snake, such as a large constrictor eat, you know they don't stab anything with their tails. What were the creators thinking? Were they thinking?

4) As long as a large constrictor does not regurgitate it's food, there is nothing left but bone matter and dust. It is definately not recognizible is any way shape or form.

Seriously, if you thought this was bad, you should have seen Python 2. Oh, yes they did. Start with this movie; take away every recognisable actor, half of the budget and three-fourths of the color, add an international subplot that ends exactly where it starts (the middle of nowhere), and suddenly, Anaconda doesn't look quite so bad. Then there's Boa Vs. Python, which has nothing to do with Boa or either of the Python movies, except that it was made by the same production company. This latest installment of the series features an exhibitionist biologist and a squeaking snake.